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Climate Risk Profile: Moldova

April 2017

This profile provides an overview of climate risk issues in Moldova, including how climate change will potentially impact agriculture, water resources, human health, forest ecosystems and livestock. The brief includes an overview and climate summary of Moldova, as well as projected climate changes. Also included is information on sector impacts and vulnerabilities to climate change, the policy context and information regarding ongoing climate change projects in Moldova.

Moldova remains one of the poorest countries in Europe, with almost 60 percent of the population concentrated in rural areas. Agriculture is a critical livelihood for rural communities and central to the country’s food security. Moldova is highly vulnerable to climate variability and change, which bring droughts, late spring frosts, hail, floods and severe storms. Increasingly erratic weather patterns have resulted in loss of life and income through rising food and energy prices.

The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MoEN), which houses the Climate Change Office, is responsible for developing and promoting state policies for environmental protection, natural resource management and conservation. Their responsibilities include implementing United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) provisions as well as enforcing other environment treaties. However, climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies are highly fragmented across government ministries, each with their own sector action plans on mitigation and adaptation to climate change.

The information provided on this website is not official U.S. government information and does not represent the views or positions of the U.S. Agency for International Development or the U.S. Government.